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Ole John Aandal
Oslo
Ole John Aandal (born 1960) is an artist based in Oslo. He studied at the Institute of Photography, SHKD, Bergen (1990–1995).
He has presented numerous exhibitions, including more recently:
2025: Nothing Good Happens Suddenly (Ingenting bra skjer plutselig), curated by Elisabeth Byre, at Oslo Kunstforening.
Aandal’s work is represented in the collections of Nasjonalmuseet, Kode, Stortinget Kunstsamling, Preus Museum, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, and Telenor Art Collection.
In 2026, he created a major permanent installation at Stortinget based on the work Oslo Arkiv, marking the Parliament’s commemoration of the 15th anniversary of July 22.
His publications include:
2026: Oslo Arkiv 2011–2021, published by SPHB / MACK Books. Editor Ana Maria Bresciani
2025: The monograph Nothing Good Happens Suddenly (Ingenting bra skjer plutselig), published by Multipress in collaboration with Oslo Kunstforening. Editor Nicholas Norton
2009: Juvenilia, published by Teknisk Industri AS.
Press:
Publications
Oslo Arkiv 2011-2021 (2026)
ISBN–978-1-917651-43-1
On 22 July 2011, a right-wing extremist detonated a car bomb in Oslo’s Government Quarter, killing eight people. Disguised in a police uniform, he then travelled to the island of Utøya, taking the lives of sixty-nine young participants at a summer camp in a mass shooting. From that day and in the decade that followed, Ole John Aandal photographed the view from his balcony overlooking the Government Quarter. Oslo Arkiv gathers a selection of this extensive archive, poignantly tracing how a city learns to endure loss.
Beginning as an act of observation, the project becomes a ritual of mourning. Weather, light, and landscape shift through the seasons, while the trauma remains just beneath the surface. In this measured rhythm of looking, Aandal captures the persistence of memory and the quiet beauty of a city rebuilding itself under ever-changing skies.
Across 480 pages, Oslo Arkiv transforms repetition into reflection, inviting readers to move back in time as both witnesses and participants in a shared process of remembrance. Published in a limited edition of 750 signed and numbered copies, this artist’s book stands as Aandal’s most ambitious work to date: a monumental work serving as both memorial and visual archive, wherein grief, attention, and the slow passage of time converge.
The book Oslo Arkiv 2011 -2021 brings together the photographic material in an artist-book published in the SPHB Editions series by the English publisher MACK Publishing in collaboration with KORO. The publication is part of KORO/Public Art Norway’s art project for the new government quarter in Oslo.
